IT WAS IN PARIS

It was in Paris
at the Belmondo premier
after my play was on
wearing my sear sucker
at the cast party
when the art director
called me Shakespeare
and translated me into French
hinting I had a career
when I rang up my friend
in San Francisco
who put a few cinematic scenes
together of my minor film feature
asking to remember him by saying
life no piece of vanilla cake
even on all Saints Day.